To: Beck_isright
Good people of New York; Fight this religious symbol because it doesn't represent your response to the malicious attack on your city. How can you say never again if you agree with this worldview? See for yourself the buddist view of total surrender and decide for yourself if it represents who you are:
Mo Tzu's Doctrines:
The Condemnation of War,
Now does it mean that to annex a state and destroy an army, injure and oppress the people, and throw the heritages of sages into confusion will benefit heaven? But to recruit the people of heaven to attack the cities of heaven is to murder the people of heaven, smash alters, demolish shrines, and kill sacrificial animals. In this way, on the higher level no benefit can be attained. Does it mean to benefit spiritual beings? But people of heaven are murdered and spiritual beings are denied their patron sacrifices. The spirits of past rulers are neglected. The multitude are injured and oppressed and the people are scattered. Thus on the middle level no benefit no spiritual beings can be attained. Does it mean to benefit the people? The benefit to the people from killing the people of heaven is slight indeed! And calculate its cost! This is the root of destruction of life. It exhausts the people to an immeasurable degree. Thus on a lower level no benefit to the people can be attained.
53 posted on
01/10/2004 9:57:20 PM PST by
reed_inthe_wind
(That Hillary really knows how to internationalize my MOJO.)
To: reed_inthe_wind
Mo Tzu's Doctrines:
Whoops! Wrong religion. What you quoted is from China. If I'm not mistaken called Mohism, an early rival of conficunism (sp?) As far as I know it has nothing whatsoever to do with Buddihsm.
124 posted on
01/11/2004 10:46:35 PM PST by
SkyRat
(If privacy wasn't of value, we wouldn't have doors on bathrooms.)
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